Lamb
Bernard MacLaverty
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  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444597
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Lamb

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1 Jun 2011
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2 Jun 2011
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2 Jun 2000
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Two boys running away from a bleak reformatory begin the adventure of a lifetime, escaping despair, experiencing freedom and happiness but also running up against the cruel complexities of everyday life.

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing as father and son, they concentrate on discovering the happiness that is so unfamiliar to them both. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.
  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446444597
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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About the author

Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media – radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

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Praise for Lamb

A first novel of integrity and power

Times Literary Supplement

A performance of great assurance and tenderness

Spectator

The alert and feeling realism of MacLaverty's story...had a rare purity of intention and texture... a deeply humane first novel

Guardian

To deal convincingly with innocence and the impossibility of innocence without being falsely naive...is a special gift, and Bernard MacLaverty displays it with great skill

Observer